WASHINGTON — Standing before a roomful of Hollywood celebrities, journalists and politicians Saturday night, comedian Seth Meyers quipped that Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight by hosting an obscure C-SPAN show that no one ever watched.

One person at the White House Correspondents dinner who clearly enjoyed the joke was President Barack Obama. He smiled broadly, in possession of a closely guarded secret. He knew precisely where bin Laden was, and he had already signed his death warrant.

All presidents keep secrets, but over a 72-hour span leading to bin Laden’s death, Obama’s capacity to keep a poker face was tested as never before. He gave a commencement speech in Miami and golfed with aides in Maryland. He comforted victims of deadly storms in Alabama and delivered comedic zingers at the correspondents’ dinner.

Through it all he got a steady series of private briefings on the military mission.

Nothing leaked. Obama announced the successful outcome of the raid in a nationally televised East Room address late Sunday night that even some veteran White House aides were unaware was coming.

Spain came under repeated attack starting Thursday in what authorities called linked terrorist incidents, when a driver swerved a van into crowds in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, killing more than a dozen people and injuring scores of others. Early Friday, an attempted attack unfolded in a town down the coast

If there’s one superhero character whose rise might be most tied to the events of World War II, it is Captain America, who emerged from the minds of legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and sprung forth from an iconic 1941 debut cover on which Cap smacks Hitler right in the kisser.

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”